Tex. Gov't Code Section 652.024
Exceptions

Section 652.023 (Prohibition Against Filling Certain Vacancies) does not apply to:

(1)

an incumbent governor if the secretary of state proclaims that, according to the secretary’s count of returns from the general election, the governor is reelected; or

(2)

a vacancy that:

(A)

first occurs after October 1 preceding the transition period and before the transition period begins;

(B)

is caused by the death of the officeholder; and

(C)

would not have occurred during the period described by Paragraph (A) by the expiration of the officeholder’s term of office.
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.

Source: Section 652.024 — Exceptions, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.­652.­htm#652.­024 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).

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